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RFA Wave Sovereign (A211)

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History
RFA EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameRFA Wave Sovereign
Ordered29 May 1943
BuilderFurness Shipbuilding Company, Haverton Hill-on-Tees
Laid down10 May 1944
Launched20 November 1945
Commissioned28 February 1946
Decommissioned1966
FateScrapped in May 1967
General characteristics
Tonnage8,187 gross register tons (GRT)
Displacement16,483 tonnes full load
Length492 ft 8 in (150.16 m)
Beam64 ft 4 in (19.61 m)
Draught28 ft 6 in (8.69 m)
PropulsionParsons double reduction geared turbines,3 drum type boilers, 6,800 hp (5,100 kW).
Speed14.5 knots (26.9 km/h)

RFA Wave Sovereign (A211) was a Wave-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and was built at Haverton Hill by the Furness Shipbuilding Company.

On 8 December 1948, Wave Sovereign was in collision with the destroyer Corunna while refuelling Corunna.[1] She was extensively modified in the early 1960s.

She was decommissioned in 1966 and laid up at Singapore.[2] Wave Sovereign was scrapped there in May 1967.

Wave Sovereign replenishing HMS Ocean and HMCS Nootka off Korea, 1952.
Wave Sovereign replenishing HMS Ocean and HMCS Nootka off Korea, 1952.

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Source: "RFA Wave Sovereign (A211)", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, July 9th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFA_Wave_Sovereign_(A211).

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References
  1. ^ English 2008, p. 167
  2. ^ "Straits Times". 15 January 1966. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
  • English, John (2008). Obdurate to Daring: British Fleet Destroyers 1941–45. Windsor, UK: World Ship Society. ISBN 978-0-9560769-0-8.

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